Description: Bridging modern medicine with traditional healing, one woman journeys to the diminishing rainforest of Belize to preserve the plant life of that once-abundant pharmacy of ancient Mayan medicine and the remedies of an aging native healer. 8 page photo insert.
Brief description: Rosita Arvigo was born in Chicago and trained in the United States as a doctor of naprapathy. In addition to her natural healing practice in Belize, Arvigo is the founder of Belize's six-thousand-acre Terra Nova Medicinal Plant Reserve, the founder of Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation, the cofounder of Rainforest Remedies, and the creator of the Panti Mayan Medicine Trail, a popular and educational tribute to Don Elijio